Death, the Occult, and the Limits of Ambition
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Anatomy of American Intervention
U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions by Michael Grow
A Dark, Comic Portrait of Weimar Berlin
Berlin Shuffle by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Absurd Realities & Unsettling Truths
(Th)ings and (Th)oughts by Alla Gorbunova
A Clearer, Kinder Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods
The Ice That Consumes Us
Ice by Anna Kavan
A Literary Dissection of Grief
Motherdying by Michael Lentz
Caught in a Moral Maelstrom
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
Tracing the Path of Self-Identity
Needle's Eye by Wiesław Myśliwski
Satirical Surrealism in Resurrected Medieval Russia
The Sugar Kremlin by Vladimir Sorokin
A Nightmarish Trip Through Germany’s past
Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz
The Contrast of War & Childhood Reverie
In Late Summer by Magdalena Blažević
A Surreal Lampoon of Humanity’s Grand Delusions
Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin
Reconstructing the Past & Self-Identity
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje
A Star’s Tragic, Blinding Light
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
A Time Capsule of the Soviet Life
The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel
Parodies of Russian Oddities & Political Machinations
Red Pyramid by Vladimir Sorokin
America’s New Cold War
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine by Scott Horton
Capturing the Absurdity of Soviet Reality
Dispatches from the District Committee by Vladimir Sorokin
The Frenetic Metamorphosis of a City
Conquered City by Victor Serge